P.A.G.E. Analysis of Professional Journal Article Analysis of your professional journal article will prepare you to read similar texts in your major and to write your own professional genre for our class.
PURPOSE
Text Box: READ THIS FIRST: Most academic research writing is problem-based. To identify the purpose of your article, look for a statement of the problem for study. Usually you’ll find it in the first few paragraphs, often in a sentence that begins with “But,” or “However” and creates a contrast with previous research (for example, “Previous research has…. However, it has not yet explored….”).
1a. Please write at least one sentence from your article that sums up its purpose.
-“This chapter asks how cognitive development occurs in and is promoted by individuals’ collaboration with others.” -“This chapter attempts to elucidate the conceptual shift from individual to sociocultural activity as unit of analysis. As well as key themes in research on cognition as a collaborative process.
1b. In your own words, what is that purpose?
-The purpose if this is to figure out how cognitive development happens and how people working together effects the development.
AUDIENCE
Text Box: READ THIS FIRST: Academic research writing has different audiences, depending on your major. Usually that audience is identified in the first few paragraphs (for example, “Education researchers have long been interested in….”) but sometimes the audience is implicit (not stated directly).
2a. Please write at least one sentence from your article that indicates its audience. -“This chapter is primarily addressed to those who are interested in exploring this edge.” 2b. In your own words, who is the audience? - The audience is for anyone who is interested in what the author is writing about. So they could be anyone really.
GENRE
Text Box: READ THIS FIRST: In different majors, there are important differences in what counts as evidence, how a text is organized, and what kinds of language it uses. To find these differences, you will have to skim through the whole of your article.
3a. Evidence – What counts as evidence in this article? How do you know?
(For example, are there statistics about the effects of a drug? Transcripts of classroom interactions? Quotes from interviews?)
-He studied Vygotsky’s theory from the 1920s and 1930s. He studied Dewey. He studied Piaget. -He talks about specific experiments done with participants.
3b. Organization – Are there sections/headings in this article? If so, list them below. If not, read the first sentence of each paragraph and try to identify shifts from one section to another.
(For example, there might be a section that gives background about prior research, and another that describes results or findings of this article). -“Classical Theoretical Approaches To cognition As A Collaborative Process” -“Cultural/Historical Theory of Vygotsky, Leont’ev, and Their Colleagues” -“Piaget’s Foray into Development Through Co-Operation” -“Sociocultural and Social “Influence” Conceptualizations” 3c. Style – Are there specialized vocabulary words or sentence structures in this article that are particular to your major? Give an example.
(For instance, Education uses terms like “differentiated instruction,” abbreviations like “IEP,” and sometimes uses passive voice “Research was conducted…”)
-He uses different methods of research such as the social influence approach and participation approach.
Analysis of your professional journal article will prepare you to read similar texts in your major and to write your own professional genre for our class.
PURPOSE
that sums up its purpose.
-“This chapter asks how cognitive development occurs in and is promoted by individuals’ collaboration with others.”
-“This chapter attempts to elucidate the conceptual shift from individual to sociocultural activity as unit of analysis. As well as key themes in research on cognition as a collaborative process.
1b. In your own words, what is that purpose?
-The purpose if this is to figure out how cognitive development happens and how people working together effects the development.
AUDIENCE
-“This chapter is primarily addressed to those who are interested in exploring this edge.”
2b. In your own words, who is the audience?
- The audience is for anyone who is interested in what the author is writing about. So they could be anyone really.
GENRE
How do you know?
(For example, are there statistics about the effects of a drug? Transcripts of classroom interactions? Quotes from interviews?)
-He studied Vygotsky’s theory from the 1920s and 1930s. He studied Dewey. He studied Piaget.
-He talks about specific experiments done with participants.
3b. Organization – Are there sections/headings in this article? If so, list them below. If not, read the first sentence of each paragraph and try to identify shifts from one section to another.
(For example, there might be a section that gives background about prior research, and another that describes results or findings of this article).
-“Classical Theoretical Approaches To cognition As A Collaborative Process”
-“Cultural/Historical Theory of Vygotsky, Leont’ev, and Their Colleagues”
-“Piaget’s Foray into Development Through Co-Operation”
-“Sociocultural and Social “Influence” Conceptualizations”
3c. Style – Are there specialized vocabulary words or sentence structures in this article that are particular to your major? Give an example.
(For instance, Education uses terms like “differentiated instruction,” abbreviations like “IEP,” and sometimes uses passive voice “Research was conducted…”)
-He uses different methods of research such as the social influence approach and participation approach.